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AUGUSTE ESTRADE, OF NEAR PERPIGNAN, FRANCE.

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SPECIFICATION formingpart of Letters Patent No. 253,592, dated February 14, 1882.

Application filed November 10, 1879. Renewed December 13,1881. (ModeL) To all whom it may concern Be it known that I, AUGUSTE ESTRADE, residing near Perpignan, France, have invented anew and useful Improvement in Railway- Vehicles or Rolling Stock, which improvement is fully set forth in the following specification andaccompanying drawings, in which- Figure 1 is a side elevation of a passenger- Fig.2 is an end view thereof. Fig. 1 is a side elevation of a tender embodying my invention. Fig. 2 is an end view thereof. Fig. 1 is a side elevation of a locomotive embodying my invention. Fig. 2 is a front end view thereof.

Similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts in the several fig-ares.

My invention has for its object the construction of rolling stock whereby it maybe run with greater speed, have increased accommodations for conveyance, and decrease of jarring and noise.

The invention consists in forming the body of a car with a secondary or extended apartment reaching below the axles and suspendingit upon a duplex system of springs, so that the car sets low and runs with ease and smoothness, and increased accommodations are provided, whereby I may employ large wheels, serviceable for great speed, andliabili-t-yof overturning of the car is lessened, as

the center of gravity is lowered.

It also consists of the suspension of the body of the car by a double system of springs, whereby the motion of the car is vastly eased and the comfort of travel therein correspondingly increased.

Referring to the drawings, A represents the body of a passenger-ear, formed of an upper and lower story, A B, each provided with suitable seats, a platform, and usual appurtenances, access being had to the upper story, B, by means of stairs F, suitably applied. The lower story or apartment, A, reaches below the axles of the car-wheels R B, so that said apartment reaches just above the track, the wheels being within the width of the carbody. In Figs. 1 2 I show a tender similarly constructed. It will be seen that the body of the passenger-car being double provides increased acalong the side of the car-body and are not limited, as when under the same. The car-body is suspended by a duplex system of springs, as follows: One set of springs, G, is suspended from standards t, secured to the upper part of the car-body and bearing on pedestals E, rising from and supported on the surrounding truckframe X, which in turn bears on springs 1, connected to or supported on the canaxle boxes.

For the lower apartment of the car the standards t pass loosely through or outside of the frame X, and are connected to said lower apartment, as at m.

The tender of the car has two apartments or bunkers-oneforfuel, the other for wateran(1 the system of springs G r is employed, only that the upper set is dispensed with, although applicable, if desired. The springsG rare applied to a locomotive similar to those of the passenger-ear and tender. The body is suspended from springs G, resting on the frame X, and the latter is suspended from axle bearings or boxes by meansot' springs r; but the extended uprights t t are secured to the'ashpit. The uprights t t are passed through guides g g for evident purposes.

Itwill be seen that as the body of the car is suspended from the upper springs, G, which are sustained on the frame X, and the latter is sustained on the springs 1, which rest on the car-axle boxes or hearings, easy motions are imparted to the car and the jarring noise thereof is obviated.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

1. The car-body having upper and lower apartments, A B, and a duplex system of springs, G r, substantially as and for the purpose set forth.

2. The body A, in combination with aduplex system of springs, G r, and the intermediate frame, X, substantially as and for the purpose set forth.

3. The bodyAand frame X,in combination In testimony whereof I have signed my 10 with the upper springs, Gr, uprights t, pedesname to this specification before two subscribtals E, and lower springs, r, substantially as ing witnesses. and for the purpose set forth. 5 4. The body A, with upper and lower apart- ESTRADE.

ments, A B, in combination with the double set of springs G 1", standards it, pedestals E, Witnesses: frame X, and extended standards it, snbstan- ROBT. M. HOOPER, tially as and for the purpose set forth. i A. GABY. 

